DABERT: Dual Attention Enhanced BERT for Semantic Matching

Sirui Wang, Di Liang, Jian Song, Yuntao Li, Wei Wu

Abstract
Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved remarkable results in Semantic Sentence Matching. However, existing models still suffer from insufficient ability to capture subtle differences. Minor noise like word addition, deletion, and modification of sentences may cause flipped predictions. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel Dual Attention Enhanced BERT (DABERT) to enhance the ability of BERT to capture fine-grained differences in sentence pairs. DABERT comprises (1) Dual Attention module, which measures soft word matches by introducing a new dual channel alignment mechanism to model affinity and difference attention. (2) Adaptive Fusion module, this module uses attention to learn the aggregation of difference and affinity features, and generates a vector describing the matching details of sentence pairs. We conduct extensive experiments on well-studied semantic matching and robustness test datasets, and the experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed method.
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2022.coling-1.141
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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1645–1654
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.141
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Sirui Wang, Di Liang, Jian Song, Yuntao Li, and Wei Wu. 2022. DABERT: Dual Attention Enhanced BERT for Semantic Matching. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1645–1654, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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